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Liz Ryan is a former Fortune 500 HR executive and the CEO of Human Workplace, an online community and consulting firm focused on reinventing work and career education. She is working with the Denver Post to bring the best expert advice on work place issues and tips to improve your career. Note: Liz Ryan was selected for her expertise, but her opinions are solely her own. We are not endorsing or advocating her business.Thu, 09 Jan 2014 06:58:11 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1Got a 2014 Career Plan? Start Here!http://blogs.denverpost.com/work/2013/10/16/got-a-2014-career-plan-start-here/1232/
http://blogs.denverpost.com/work/2013/10/16/got-a-2014-career-plan-start-here/1232/#commentsThu, 17 Oct 2013 04:34:39 +0000http://blogs.denverpost.com/work/?p=1232We had a massive flood in Colorado this year. Anybody in Colorado whose life plans weren't at least slightly disrupted by Mother Nature in 2013 is a lucky person indeed.
My 20-year-old daughter helped one friend move out of his apartment the day after the worst of the flooding. There was three feet of water throughout [...]

]]>http://blogs.denverpost.com/work/2013/10/16/got-a-2014-career-plan-start-here/1232/feed/1The Denver PostNetworking: what's all the buzz about?http://blogs.denverpost.com/work/2013/09/11/networking-whats-all-the-buzz-about/1222/
http://blogs.denverpost.com/work/2013/09/11/networking-whats-all-the-buzz-about/1222/#commentsWed, 11 Sep 2013 18:25:47 +0000http://blogs.denverpost.com/work/?p=1222I remember the first time I heard the word "network" used as a verb. One day around 1984, a guy that I had worked with years before called me, out of the blue. He was on a mission. He pronounced the unfamiliar word carefully.
"I got laid off," said my old co-worker, "and the company [...]

]]>http://blogs.denverpost.com/work/2013/09/11/networking-whats-all-the-buzz-about/1222/feed/1Job references can be sticky businesshttp://blogs.denverpost.com/work/2013/05/29/job-references-can-be-sticky-business/1062/
http://blogs.denverpost.com/work/2013/05/29/job-references-can-be-sticky-business/1062/#commentsWed, 29 May 2013 18:00:28 +0000http://blogs.denverpost.com/work/?p=1062"So, anyway," says the guy on the phone, "I'm pretty sure my last employer is black-balling me. Every time I get a job interview and it goes well, the thing dies, and it's always after I submit my list of references."
"Now, why would your last employer do that?"I asked him. "Did you leave on bad [...]

]]>http://blogs.denverpost.com/work/2013/05/29/job-references-can-be-sticky-business/1062/feed/1The Denver PostPhoto courtesy of Human Workplace]]>The Reinvention Starts Here!http://blogs.denverpost.com/work/2013/05/15/the-reinvention-starts-here/1045/
http://blogs.denverpost.com/work/2013/05/15/the-reinvention-starts-here/1045/#commentsWed, 15 May 2013 20:57:48 +0000http://blogs.denverpost.com/work/?p=1045People get thrown for a loop when they're hit with a lot of big changes at once. Who can blame them? It's hard on your body and your brain when you get slammed with changes. It's hard on little kids going up to middle school, and people my age getting pink-slipped and looking around to [...]

]]>http://blogs.denverpost.com/work/2013/05/15/the-reinvention-starts-here/1045/feed/0The Denver PostWhat is a Mojofied Job Seeker?http://blogs.denverpost.com/work/2013/03/05/whats-a-mojofied-job-seeker/908/
http://blogs.denverpost.com/work/2013/03/05/whats-a-mojofied-job-seeker/908/#commentsTue, 05 Mar 2013 18:05:00 +0000http://blogs.denverpost.com/work/?p=908 It's kind of depressing to read the typical job-search advice article. Don't wear this, and don't say that. You'd think that millions of qualified people are applying for every open job, but that isn't the case. At least, that isn't what employers are saying. When I Googled the term "talent shortage" about ten seconds [...]

]]>http://blogs.denverpost.com/work/2013/03/05/whats-a-mojofied-job-seeker/908/feed/0The Denver PostHow to fire your bosshttp://blogs.denverpost.com/work/2013/02/22/how-to-fire-your-boss/895/
http://blogs.denverpost.com/work/2013/02/22/how-to-fire-your-boss/895/#commentsFri, 22 Feb 2013 23:10:57 +0000http://blogs.denverpost.com/personalinterest/?p=895"And then, you won't believe what my boss said after that," continued the young woman, replaying the painful scene in her head. "He said I'm one of the weakest marketers he's ever known. He said 'You could be excellent with my coaching, but we've got a long way to go.'

]]>http://blogs.denverpost.com/work/2013/02/22/how-to-fire-your-boss/895/feed/1Forty ways to get unstuck career-wise: downloadable eBookhttp://blogs.denverpost.com/work/2013/02/15/forty-ways-to-get-unstuck-career-wise/815/
http://blogs.denverpost.com/work/2013/02/15/forty-ways-to-get-unstuck-career-wise/815/#commentsFri, 15 Feb 2013 20:23:03 +0000http://blogs.denverpost.com/personalinterest/?p=815I worked in a fast-growing high tech company, and it was all fun and games until the CEO said, "Hey, I'm selling the company." I only got to tell one person, my friend Diane, because Diane and I had to plan the employee communications strategy. "So anyway, Diane," I told her, "I don't know how [...]

]]>http://blogs.denverpost.com/work/2013/02/01/jobhunting-business-pain/623/feed/1You Won't Find Your Passion from a Testhttp://blogs.denverpost.com/work/2013/01/07/find-passion-test/568/
http://blogs.denverpost.com/work/2013/01/07/find-passion-test/568/#commentsMon, 07 Jan 2013 19:47:55 +0000http://blogs.denverpost.com/personalinterest/?p=568Oh geez, I thought as I answered my office phone, first thing this morning. A PR call at eight a.m.? The young man on the phone was trying to sell me on writing a column about his company's career-path-calculating software. This was not the call I would have picked to start my day, but the [...]

]]>http://blogs.denverpost.com/work/2013/01/07/find-passion-test/568/feed/2The Quick & Dirty MBA Job Search Guidehttp://blogs.denverpost.com/work/2012/12/19/quick-dirty-mba-job-search-guide/517/
http://blogs.denverpost.com/work/2012/12/19/quick-dirty-mba-job-search-guide/517/#commentsWed, 19 Dec 2012 16:59:11 +0000http://blogs.denverpost.com/personalinterest/?p=517I was sitting in front of the Christmas tree a couple of weeks ago, thinking about MBAs and job hunting. I have a soft spot for folks in full-time graduate programs, because it's hard to spend two years with your brain split down the middle. When you go back to school to improve your career-type [...]